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DÍDIMO CASTILLO FERNÁNDEZ

Sociologist and demographer, PhD in Population Studies (El Colegio de México). Research professor at the School of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Autónomas del Estado de México; current holder of the “Horacio Flores de la Peña” Chair at the Social Sciences and Humanities Department, Universidad Autónomas Metropolitan, UAM-XOCHIMILCO; former coordinator of the CLACSO “United States Studies” Working Group; member of the National Researchers System, SNI-CONACYT, Level II; Distinguished Researcher of the National Researchers System of the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation, SENACYT-Panama, and Regular Member of the Mexican Science Academy.He has authored, co-authored, and coordinated books published by prestigious publishing houses (highlights below). Collaborator for Latinoamericana. Enciclopedia Contemporánea de América Latina y el 

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Caribe (Editorial Akal, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) y Boitempo Editorial, Madrid, coordinated by Emir Sader et al.); collaborator for the book Crisis de hegemonía de Estados Unidos (Siglo XXI Editores y CLACSO, México, D.F.); collaborator for the book: América Latina y el Caribe: Escenarios posibles y políticas sociales (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, Uruguay, coordinated by Theotonio Dos Santos); author of the book Los nuevos trabajadores precarios (Miguel Ángel Porrúa, México, D.F.); co-coordinator alongside Brígida García Guzmán (anthology and introduction), of the book by Carmen A. Miró, América Latina, población y desarrollo (Colección “Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano” CLACSO, Buenos Aires and Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico); co-coordination, alongiside Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr., introduction by Emir Sader, and foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein, of the book Estados Unidos: la crisis sistémica y las nuevas condiciones de legitimación (edited by Siglo XXI and CLACSO, Mexico); coordinator, Capital, trabajo y nueva organización obrera (Editorial Miguel Ángel Porrúa and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL); co-coordination, alongside Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr., introduction by Theotonio Dos Santos, and foreword by John Saxe-Fernández, of the book Estados Unidos, más allá de la crisis (Siglo XXI, CLACSO, and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM)); co-coordinator, alongside Norma Baca Tavira and Rosalba Todaro Cavallero, of the book Trabajo global y desigualdades en el mercado de trabajo (Editores UAEM, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM), and CLACSO); co-coordinator, alongside Jorge Guadalupe Arzate Salgado and Silvia Irene Arcos Sánchez, of the book Precariedad y desaliento laboral de los jóvenes en México (Siglo XXI Editores, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, School of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México), co-author, alongside Alejando I. Canales, of the book Contra la desigualdad. Contribution for a social emancipation speech, Ediciones AKAL, Mexico, among others. 

Author of articles for national and international scientific journals, among which: “Hegemony and the U.S. Working Class”, Latin American Perspective (vol. 38, number 2, LAP Editorial, CA, U.S., March, 2011, pp. 71-85); “The United States: Economic Crisis, Productive Restructuring and the New Precarious Labor Conditions”, Sociology Study (vol. 2, Number 10, David Publishing Company, CA., U.S. October, 2012, pp. 779-796); “Movilidad laboral y transmisión intergeneracional del autoempleo informal en México”, Gaceta Laboral (vol. 19, no. 1, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Laborales y Disciplinas Afines, CIELDA, Universidad del Zulia, Zulia, Venezuela, 2013, pp. 5-35, co-authored by Fortino Vela Peón); “Labor Mobility and Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employment in Mexico", Journal of the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies (vol. 15, number 1, Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, December-June, 2013, 193-235); “Latin America: Outsourcing and the New Labor Precariousness”, Latin American Perspectives (Issue 192, vol. 40, number 5, LAP Editorial, CA, U.S., September 2013, 14-26, co-authored by Adrián Sotelo Valencia); “Economic Crisis, Poverty and Social Policy in Mexico", Critical Sociology (vol. 42, num. 1, SAGE Publications Ltd, N.J., 2016, pp. 87-104, co-authored by Jorge Arzate Zalgado); 2017, “¿Es posible el desarrollo en América Latina, hoy? El nuevo entorno de la ‘desglobalización’”, Anthropos (núm. 147, Editorial Anthropos, Barcelona, abril-junio 2017, pp. 71-86); “The New ‘De-globalization’ Environment: A View from Latin America”, Critical Sociology, (vol. 44, num. 1, SAGE PublicationsLtd, N.J., January, 2018, pp. 3-10), “Carmen A. Miró y la demografía latinoamericana”, Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos (vol. 33, núm. 1-97, Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales, El Colegio de México, enero-abril de 2018, pp. 253-257), and “Modelos de desarrollo, precariedad y nuevas desigualdades sociales en América Latina”, Revista CEPAL, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago de Chile. (Approved), among others. 

Member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Association of Sociology, ALAS, 1999-2001; member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Society of Demography, SOMEDE, 2001-2003, 2003-2005, 2006-2008; member of the transitional Board of Directors and founding member of the Latin American Association of Population, ALAP, 2003-2004; member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Association of Population, ALAP, 2006-2008; member of the extended Board of Directors of the Latin American Association of Sociology, ALAS, 2005-2009. Member of the Governing Board of the Anthropos journal, Editorial Anthropos-Siglo XXI Editores, Barcelona, Spain, since January 2017. Member of the Editorial Board of the website: “Conceptos y Fenómenos Fundamentales de Nuestro Tiempo”, directed by Pablo González Casanova, Institute of Social Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, since December 2013. 

E-mail : didimo99@prodigy.net.mx y didimocastillofernandez@gmail.com

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